Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese democracy leader and Nobel Prize winner, was permitted a rare respite from her house arrest this morning for a brief meeting with a United Nations envoy dispatched to mediate with the country's repressive military dictatorship.
A closed military court in Burma
sentenced 14 pro-democracy activists to 65 years each in prison
yesterday for their part in last year's anti-government uprising.
The
leaders of the 88 Generation students group had staged small-scale
protests against the sudden fuel price rises which fomented unrest that
led to demonstrations led by monks. At least 31 people were killed in a
subsequent army crackdown in Rangoon.
